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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects -The China Price
By Porchlight
The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage by Alexandra Harney, Penguin Press, 336 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, April 2008, ISBN 9781594201578 Many of the books written about business in China in the past few years have come at the situation from a "half full" perspective. As a thinking person, you know there is another side to all these products we are buying so cheaply.
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Jack Covert Selects - It's Our Ship
By Porchlight
It's Our Ship: The No-Nonsense Guide to Leadership by Michael Abrashoff, Business Plus, 208 pages, $25. 99, May 2008, ISBN 9780446199667 One of our best-selling books of the new century has been Michael Abrashoff's first book, It's Your Ship. Abrashoff was then a recently retired captain in the US Navy, and the book told the story of his successful turnaround of the USS Benfold.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Go Green, Live Rich: An Interview with David Bach
By Porchlight
In today's podcast, we speak with David Bach, author of the popular Finish Rich series of personal finance books and the man who coined the term Latte Factor. His latest book, entitled Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying, is a quick and interesting read, filled with a sense of purpose and easy steps that one can take to become a smarter consumer and live a greener lifestyle. We spoke last month about why he chose to write this book, and how--contrary to popular misconceptions--going green can actually save you money.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Game-Changer
By Porchlight
The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation by A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan, Crown Business, 336 pages, $27.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Pixar Touch
By Porchlight
The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price, Knopf, 304 pages, $27. 95 Hardcover, May 2008, ISBN 9780307265753 Disney's The Sword in the Stone may have inspired some youngsters with dreams of becoming a knight or magician, leading them to a life of role-playing and dice-throwing.
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Blog / News & Opinion
April's Best Sellers NOW on Compact Disc
By Porchlight
I know you've ALL been waiting to see which books from our TOP 25 books last month are now available on CD. . .
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Blog / News & Opinion
Making Things Happen
By Porchlight
Scott Berkun's latest book is out: Making Things Happen, it's an updated edition of his bestseller, The Art of Project Management. Scott was a manager at Microsoft from 1994 - 2003. Back when Microsoft was working on developing Windows, Internet Explorer and MSN.
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Gullible's Travels
By Porchlight
Yes! Another CornerStone book has made it on my desk! !
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links for 2008-05-08
By Porchlight
Powerhouse Principles>>The Wall Street Journal | Rags, Riches and Real Estate Despite such nuggets, "Powerhouse Principles" has the slightly moribund feel of a 2002 guide to picking tech stocks.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Achieving Business Excellence
By Porchlight
"There is no single strategy that will carry your company forever—just ask my buddy Tom Peters, who wrote the fantastic book In Search of Excellence back in 1982, only to watch more than half of the companies he highlighted go out of business! Markets shift, consumer preferences change, new competitors appear, technology advances—and so must you. Even though I can recommend which of today's popular strategies I believe deserve your attention, there is no guarantee that these same strategies will still be as relevant in 20 years. I think they will, but no one can see that far ahead. With all of that said, [these] are the six strategies on which all the great companies I studied were relentlessly focused."
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